Complete Album Download - Never Never Land
1. Do It
2. Heavenly Man
3. Say You Love Me
4. War Girl
5. Never Never Land
6. Track One, Side Two
7. Thor
8. Teenage Rebel
9. Uncle Harry's Last Freakout
10. The Dream Is Just Beginning
BONUS TRACKS:
11. The Snake
12. Do It
13. War Girl
14. Uncle Harry's Last Freakout
Released; 1971, Recorded; 1971, Genre; Psychedelic rock, Length; 46:21, Label; Polydor Records, Producer; Pink Fairies, Neil Slaven
Never Never Land is a 1971 album by the UK underground group Pink Fairies.
Download Complete Album - Never Never Land - Pink Fairies
The group were formed when the three musicians from The Deviants, having sacked their singer and leader Mick Farren, returned from a disastrous tour of the West Coast of North America and hooked up with Twink. These musicians had previously collaborated on Twink's Think Pink prior to the tour, and during the tour Twink, Farren and Steve Peregrin Took had used the The Pink Fairies Motorcycle Club and All-Star Rock and Roll Band name, taken from a story written by Jamie Mandelkau, as an umbrella for their activities, including one gig in Manchester.
Polydor Records commissioned the group to record a single, "The Snake"/"Do It", and were happy enough with the results to offer the group an album contract. A promotional film was recorded for the single on the set of
Oliver!, but the single was omitted from this debut album.
The b-side, "Do It", did appear but with added overdubs. "Do It" was later covered by the Henry Rollins Band on their Do It album. The sleeve came in a printed PVC cover, with an inner gatefold sleeve depicting two different scenescapes, and a printed inner sleeve with photograph of the band. 200 copies were also pressed on pink vinyl the same year.
Released over a year after their formation, Never Never Land is one freakin, rockin-rollin monster. The group formed in early 1970 around ex-Deviants Paul Rudolph (guitar and vocals), Sandy Sanderson (bass), Russell Hunter (drums) and the recently ex-Pretty Things drummer and vocalist, Twink. At their first gig at The Roundhouse, April 5, 1970, they were met with thunderous applause before they had even played a note, and their continued support from the London underground press helped their already heavy underground credentials, dubbing them as The Peoples Band. Their first single, The Snake, is -- I wont mince words here -- complete punk rock for 1970, and seven years before its time. John Lydon once referred to The Pink Fairies as his favourite of the old wave rock bands and once you hear Never Never Land or The Snake single, youll understand why. Paul Black George Rudolph commands his Baby Gibson Les Paul effortlessly into virgin, un-navigated realms of controlled noise from pure silk to raw power as Tony Iommi, Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townshend (circa Live At Leeds) all take roost in his head and the complete abandon of his dosed-up guitar guides the whole ensemble into a series of abandoned freak and rolls previously unheard of in England.
The album opens with Do It, the inflammatory, Twink-penned anthem that was the B-side of the previously mentioned The Snake single, here remixed and with an additional opening acoustic intro. It takes off into a get-off-yer-ass blistering rock out, Rudolphs stunningly raw guitar builds and builds into a blinding coda that kicks everyones ass twice. Twinks other tracks (Heavenly Man, Wargirl and lThe Dream Is Just Beginning) are quieter forays by comparison, but in no way any less addled.
Say You Love Me and Teenage Rebel are but two further examples of the tight but raw rocknroll that get spilled out at high speed, with Rudolphs gruff vocals bayed over the ensuing loud, stomping free festival stomp-outs. An extended double-drum solo bridges into Uncle Harrys Last Freak Out, their free festival closer. Running anywhere from 10-30 minutes live, its a little brief here at a mere 10 minutes 49 seconds but no less raw or hectic. The double-drumming builds up a buffalo stampede in the background that drowns out Sandersons polite bass, but Rudolphs guitar is too over the place, far too loud, and rocketing from speaker to speaker with stereo panning to meet a similar fate.
Its also filtered through Binson Echorec, distortion, wah-wah and infused with such a spirit of going for it that the surprise synthesizer chord that breaks in gets you every time, bursting in like a manic pixie throwing fairy dust right between your eyes. It then starts up again, but the echo unit is still on so high a setting that it captures every single wisp of riffing and amplifies it into a freight train running through your head. It can only settle down from here so it does with Rudolph intoning: Everyone should be so happy/Everyone could be so merry/You and me could be so fairy After taking itself way down, it begins to rise slightly, where every small strum across the guitar bridge is a huge riff across the sky, the Binson on far too high. Before the other three Fairies know it, Rudolph is storming across the heavens in a chariot, and theyre holding onto the back of his black t-shirt for dear life, cause the echo is causing all his frenetic riffing to sound like hundreds of Rudolphs playing at once and they can barely keep up. But they relax as all smears into a single mandied and echoed haze-out.
PINK FAIRIES – DO IT
PINK FAIRIES – SAY YOU LOVE ME
PINK FAIRIES – WARGIRL / TEENAGE REBEL
PINK FAIRIES – NEVER NEVER LAND
PINK FAIRIES – UNCLE HARRY’S LAST FREAK-OUT
PINK FAIRIES – UNCLE HARRY’S LAST FREAK-OUT / CITY KIDS
PINK FAIRIES – THE SNAKE / CITY KIDS
PINK FAIRIES - GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 71
The Pink Fairies were an English rock band active in the London (Ladbroke Grove) underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s. They promoted free music, drug taking and anarchy and often performed impromptu gigs and other agitprop stunts, such as playing for free outside the gates at the Bath and Isle of Wight pop festivals in 1970, as well as appearing at Phun City, the second Glastonbury and many other free festivals including Windsor and Trentisho
versus the Pigs from Uranus. "Walk Don't Run" is a cover of The Ventures song, and there's a cover version of The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There". "Marilyn" features a drum solo.
